Bowling game.



1To. 718,391. PATENTED JAN. 13', .1906

- 0. SCHWIDETZKY.

BOWLING GAME.

APPLIUATLON FILED JULY 5, 1902.

.NO MODEL.

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Mrs STATES ATENT QFFIGE.

OSKAR SOHWIDETZKY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

' BOWLING GAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 718,391, dated January 13, 1903.

Application filed July 5, 1902. Serial No. 114,451. (No model.)

To ctZZ whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSKAR SCHWIDETZKY,- a citizen of the Empire of Germany, residing in New York, borough of Manhattan, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bowling Games, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved bowling game of that class which is intended to be played in the parlor or indoors, so as to form an amusement for grown people and children, the special improvement relating to the means for. directing the barrel through which the ball is shot at the pins; and for this purpose the invention consists in a bowling game comprising an inclined alley-board, a set of pins at the rear end of the same, a barrel at the front end of the board, and mechanism for directing the barrel in lateral and upward direction prior to the shooting of the ball; and the invention consists, further, of certain details of construction and combinations of parts, which will be fully described hereinafter and finally pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improved bowling game. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the barrel through which the ball is shot, drawn on a larger scale and taken on line 2 2, Fig. 3; and Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line 3 3, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A indicates the casing of my improved bowling game. The casing A is made lower at the front end than at the rear end, the front end being covered by a closed top A. In the casing A is arranged an inclined alley-board B, which is provided with pine P at its rear end, the top of the casing above the alley-board B being closed by a glass pane, which exhibits the pins, but prevents access to the same. The pins may be overturned by the ball by any approved mechanism, which is not shown. At the front end of the inclined alley-board B and centrally to the same is arranged a barrel 0, which is held in'position by two springs D, that are attached to the alleyboard B and extend from the side walls of the casing inwardly alongside of the barrel 0,

so that their free ends act on both sides of thesame. The curved springs D serve also as abutments for returning the ball into the barrel after each throw. The front end of the barrel is located in a recess of apartitionwall Ai'that separates the front part of the casing from the main portion of the same. The ball is shot from the barrel by the fulcrumed and spring actuated hammer by means of any suitable actuating mechanism, the hammer being shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The front end of the barrel isconnected by a fulcrumed pin fwith a lever F, which is pivoted to said fulcrumed pin at its front end and fulcrumed on a transverse support g, the ends of which are pivoted to lugs 9', attached to the partition-wall A as shown clearly in Fig. 3. lhe rear end of the lever .F is-provided with a bent-up centrally-recessed lug f, which is engaged by the for wardly-bent end 6 at the lower end of a shank cf, that passes through thetop of the casing to the outside of the same, where an operating-button E is applied thereto. The pivoted support g of the lever F is connected by a helical spring 8 with a fixed point on the transverse partition A said spring serving to return-the barrel into its normal position of rest on the alley-board after the same has been raised by depressing the button E. On the partition-wall A above the front end of the barrel 0, is arranged a transverse bar h, which serves as a stop for the pin f of the barrel when the same is moved in upward direction, while the lateral movement of the barrel is controlled by the side springs D, whichserve to return the same into normal position.

The operation of my improved bowling game is as follows: The hammer by which the ball is shot through the barrel is actuated by any suitable actuating device, which may be coin-operated or otherwise, so that the ball is thrown through the barrel against the pins. Before the ball is shot by the hammer-operating mechanism the barrel is placed into proper position by depressing the button and moving the same in either direction. The depression of the button produces the slight lifting of the barrel at different angles of inclination to the alley board, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. Simultaneously the barrel may be moved on its pivot-pin to one side or the other by turning the button in the direction desired, so as to force the retainingspring to one side, as shown in Fig. 3, said spring always returning the barrel to centrally normal position after the pressure on the button is released. The spring acting on the pivoted supportingbar g of the directinglever F also serves for returning the barrel into position on the alley-board after the lifting action produced by depressing the button has been released. The intermediate mechanism by which the barrel is connected with the directing-button serves, therefore, for the double purpose of changing the inclination of the barrel and movingit slightly to one side or the other, as required, to direct the ball at the pins still standing after the previous shots. In this manner the barrel can be directed after some plactice so as to shoot the ball with the best possible effect either when all the pins are standing or when some are standing, the directing of the barrel requiring some skill, whereby the pleasure and interest in the game is increased.

Any suitable setting-up mechanism for the pins is used in connection with the game; but the same is not here shown, as being beyond the scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a parlor bowling game, the combination, with an inclined alley-board, of a set of pins at the rear end of the same, a barrel at the front end of the board, said barrel being pivoted at its front end, curved springs attached to the alley-board and placed in contact with the opposite sides of the barrel, said curved springs serving as abutments for returning the ball to the barrel, substantially as set forth.

2. In a parlor bowling game, the combination, with an inclined alley-board, of a set of pins at the rear end of the same, a barrel at the front end of the board, curved springs extending from the sides of the alley-board to opposite sides of said barrel, the curves of said springs forming abutments for returning the ball, and means for directing the ball in vertical as well as lateral direction, substantially as set forth.

3. In a parlor bowling game, the combination, with an inclined alley-board provided with a set of pins at one end, of a barrel for shooting at the opposite end, cushioning springs arranged at opposite sides of said barrel and curved toward the sides of the alleyboard, said springs serving as abutments for returning the ball to the barrel, a fulcrumed and spring-actuated lever engaging the barrel at its front end, a pivoted and spring-actuated support for said lever, and a shank engaging the rear end of said lever, said shank being provided with a button for moving the lever in upward or downward or lateral direction for directing the barrel prior to shooting the ball, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

OSKAR SCHVVIDETZKY.

\Vitn esses:

PAUL GonPEL, O. BRADWAY. 

